Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
Parallel translations
- WEB Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?
- KJV Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
- NKJV Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can declare all His praise?
- NASB Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the Lord, Or can proclaim all His praise?
- NLT Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord? Who can ever praise him enough?
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Quick answer
No one can fully recount the LORD's mighty acts or declare all His praise. It matters because God's greatness exceeds all human telling.
Overview
The psalmist marvels that God's deeds are beyond complete description. This expresses humble worship in the face of God's infinite power and goodness. It invites believers to praise continually, knowing they can never exhaust the worthiness of the Lord.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Rom 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Eph 1:19and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
- Ps 139:17–18How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
- Ps 145:3–12Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
- Neh 9:5Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Job 26:14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
- Ps 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
- Eph 3:18will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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